Watch Sivle Talk's Videos For 'This Body Of Mine' & 'This City Has Let Our Children Down'

The new project of Tane Cotton (Allophones), Ōtepoti's Sivle Talk have delivered a double gut-punch of single / video releases, today unveiling 'This Body Of Mine' following last Friday's dissonant and disenchanted 'This City Has Let Our Children Down' — a timely anthem echoing many local artists' feelings this week. A disarmingly personal flip-side to the latter song's externally raging post-punk squal, the balladic 'This Body Of Mine' meditates upon physical and mental vulnerability, using actual audio from Cotton's own call to emergency services during what distressingly felt like a "heart attack". The accompanying DIY clip is appropriately intimate, somberly greyscale and shroud-like.

Experience Cotton's self-directed videos for double A-side singles 'This Body Of Mine' and 'This City Has Let Our Children Down' below, and go catch Sivle Talk on stage later this month, playing alongside a whopper lineup at Dankfest 2025...

"Following last week’s This City, I’d like to introduce you to This Body Of Mine; a song with an equally hilarious romp of a video about my unexplainable hospitalisations, experiencing a “heart attack” that was actually a nothingburger prank by god, and my long-term struggles with crippling chronic illness and depression.

In all seriousness, this is a deeply personal song that aims to capture the feelings of hopelessness and isolation brought on by chronic illness and how it presses the pause button on one’s life — and I hope it can bring some solace to others in similar situations that they are not alone, and also shed some light on a topic that is difficult for healthy people to truly understand." - Tane Cotton / Sivle Talk

Dankfest 2025
Featuring... Slumbug, Maced, No Sector, Slur, Bin Day, Model Home, Peaking in High School, Cash Guitar, Festering Death, Kāhu Rōpū, OHM, Pork and the Babes, Sivle Talk, Strap
Friday 29th August & Saturday 30th August - The Crown Hotel, Dunedin
Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Hit play on 'This City Has Let Our Children Down'...

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